Mildred Gail Pabón Charneco (born November 27, 1957, in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican jurist serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico after being appointed to the post on February 4, 2009, by Governor Luis Fortuño. Graduated at the University of Puerto Rico, where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Science with the highest honors. In 1983 she earned her juris doctor from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law. She filled the vacancy created by the death of Associate Justice Jaime Fuster in 2007. Justice Pabón is the fourth woman to serve on the Puerto Rican High Court.

Prior to serving as associate justice, Pabón served for over nine years as a judge at the Puerto Rico Circuit Court of Appeals and as Legislative Counsel to Governor Pedro Rosselló. Prior to that, Pabón worked as a staff attorney at the Office of Legislative Services of Puerto Rico and in private practice.

Mildred Pabón

See also

List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists

References

Supreme Court Website, in Spanish

1957 births

Living people

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico alumni

21st-century American women judges

21st-century American judges

21st-century Puerto Rican women lawyers

21st-century American women lawyers

21st-century American lawyers

Mildred Pabón